Twitch streamer Kai Cenat's hyped PS5 giveaway sparks mayhem in Manhattan (www.bbc.com)
A YouTuber’s announcement of a video games console giveaway sparked chaos and a major police response in the heart of New York City on Friday....
Prosecutors ask judge to issue protective order after Trump post appearing to promise revenge (thehill.com)
The Justice Department on Friday asked a federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former President Donald Trump in Washington to step in after he released a post online that appeared to p…
A judge has ruled Texas' abortion ban is too restrictive for women with pregnancy complications (apnews.com)
New Bill Cosby Accuser Files Lawsuit Alleging He Drugged, Sexually Assaulted Her (www.rollingstone.com)
What Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán Understand About Your Brain (www.politico.com)
Why do some people who support Trump also wind up believing conspiracy theories? There’s a scientific explanation for that.
Galveston Beach fecal matter — how bad is it actually? (www.axios.com)
A recent study by Environment Texas found that almost every Texas beach tested positive for unsafe levels of fecal bacteria in 2022.
Google is charging its employees $99 a night to stay at its on-campus hotel to help "transition to the hybrid workplace." (gizmodo.com)
Phony bank accounts resurface at Wells Fargo, with a twist (www.nbcnews.com)
As a longtime forensic accountant who helps consumer lawyers investigate big financial institutions, Jay Patterson has made a point to do business with a smallish local bank in his hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas. So he was startled in June 2022 when he received a bank statement from Wells Fargo showing $12 in an “Everyday...
EPA Approved a Fuel Ingredient Even Though It Could Cause Cancer in Virtually Every Person Exposed Over a Lifetime (www.propublica.org)
An EPA document shows that a new Chevron fuel ingredient has a lifetime cancer risk more than 1 million times higher than what the agency usually finds acceptable — even greater than another Chevron fuel’s sky-high risk disclosed earlier this year.
5th Circuit Strikes Down Mississippi’s Jim Crow Era Felony Disenfranchisement Provision (www.democracydocket.com)
On Friday, Aug. 4, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a Jim Crow-era provision of the Mississippi Constitution that permanently disenfranchised Mississippians with certain felony convictions. The opinion held that the provision violates the 8th Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. The...
Hackers force hospital system to take its national computer system offline (www.nbcnews.com)
Prospect Medical Holdings, a chain that owns hospitals, as well as more than 165 outpatient facilities, said ransomware hackers had breached its system.
It’s midwinter, but it’s over 100 degrees in South America (www.washingtonpost.com)
Ocean surface hits highest ever recorded temperature and set to rise further (www.theguardian.com)
Average daily surface temperature of 20.96C (69.7F) breaks 2016 record, with experts saying warmest month for oceans to come
Global food prices rise after Russia ends grain deal and India restricts rice exports (apnews.com)
Global prices for food commodities like rice and vegetable oil have risen for the first time in months after Russia pulled out of a wartime agreement allowing Ukraine to ship grain to the world, and India restricted some of its rice exports, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said Friday.
White ex-officers in Mississippi plead guilty to racist assault on 2 Black men during raid (apnews.com)
AP: How rogue Mississippi officers tried to cover up their torture of 2 Black men (apnews.com)
Scientists want you to mail dead butterflies for research if you live in these states (www.npr.org)
Have you seen any dead butterflies lately?...
Infant RSV shot wins backing of CDC advisors, paving way for fall availability (www.cnbc.com)
The first shot that protects all infants against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, won the unanimous backing of an advisory panel to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday.
Ocean heat record broken, with grim implications for the planet (www.bbc.com)
The average daily global sea surface temperature beat a 2016 record this week, according to the EU’s climate change service Copernicus....
Russian ship hit in Novorossiysk, Black Sea drone attack, Ukraine sources say (www.bbc.com)
Gay Louisiana doctor says he’s leaving the state over its ‘discriminatory’ legislation (www.nbcnews.com)
Dr. Jake Kleinmahon, who is just one of three pediatric heart doctors with his specialty in Louisiana, said he feels like the state has targeted families like his.
Superconductor claims spark investor frenzy, but scientists are skeptical (www.reuters.com)
Last week, two papers by South Korean scientists made an extraordinary claim that sparked a social media frenzy and pushed up prices of some stocks in China and South Korea: the discovery of a practical superconductor....
'We are not imperial': Justice Kagan says Supreme Court still subject to checks and balances (www.cnn.com)
Justice Elena Kagan declined Thursday to outright answer the question of whether Congress could impose an ethics code on the Supreme Court, but she did allow that it could do “various things” to regulate the high court....
Montana otter attack leaves 3 women hurt, including one flown to the hospital (www.nbcnews.com)
Montana wildlife management officials don’t plan to take any further action. Otters can be protective of themselves and their young.
Google users can now ask to have their explicit photos removed from search results (www.nbcnews.com)
The company also introduced a new dashboard that tracks when a person’s personal contact information appears in its search results.
